Jim Weaver

Jim Weaver

Jim Weaver
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Jim Weaver is a principal developer and mentor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Jim has decades of experience building software products in a variety of industries, with a focus on agile practices and mentoring. He is a co-inventor of MyHealthAtVanderbilt, a VUMC patient web portal. Previously at ThoughtWorks, Jim coauthored JWebUnit, an open source web testing framework. At GTE, Jim supported and trained elements of the US Army Signal Corps on network control software he helped build. He regularly works with developers and testers on testing strategies for products built in a variety of languages, and has helped train teams in Extreme Programming. Find Jim on Twitter at @tenoxtweets and on LinkedIn.

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Jim Weaver

Jim Weaver is a principal developer and mentor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Jim has decades of experience building software products in a variety of industries, with a focus on agile practices and mentoring. He is a co-inventor of MyHealthAtVanderbilt, a VUMC patient web portal. Previously at ThoughtWorks, Jim coauthored JWebUnit, an open source web testing framework. At GTE, Jim supported and trained elements of the US Army Signal Corps on network control software he helped build. He regularly works with developers and testers on testing strategies for products built in a variety of languages, and has helped train teams in Extreme Programming. Find Jim on Twitter at @tenoxtweets and on LinkedIn.

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Focusing in on a light bulb Why Do We Test Software?"Why do we test software?" seems like a silly question—most people would say, “So we know it works, duh." But there are many other reasons we test our products, as well as many possible benefits besides confirming that a system does what we intended it to do. Figuring out the purpose behind your tests is illuminating.